Information about the package, fence-agents, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fence-agents package is designed for, Fence Agents for Red Hat Cluster.
Package Name:
fence-agents
Summary:
Fence Agents for Red Hat Cluster
Description:
Red Hat Fence Agents is a collection of scripts to handle remote power management for several devices.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
4.0.15
Release:
13.el6_9.2
Size:
193 k
Repository:
updates
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Control the fence-agents package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fence-agents
This command will install fence-agents on the server.
yum remove fence-agents
This command will un-install fence-agents on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fence-agents, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fence-agents
This command will un-install fence-agents on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fence-agents when using the -y flag.
yum update fence-agents
This command will update fence-agents to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fence-agents, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fence-agents
This command will update fence-agents to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fence-agents when using the -y flag.
yum info fence-agents
This command will show you core information about the fence-agents package.
yum deplist fence-agents
This command will show you the dependencies for fence-agents. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update fence-agents
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fence-agents. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.